Wisconsin Handweavers, Inc

A 501 ( c ) (3) organization

Text Box: Natural Dye Workshop Workshop with Jan Macklin Discover nature’s sources of color by using eco-friendly natural dyestuffs and extracts to create a handwoven scarf or shawl. This comprehensive two-day workshop gains participants with hands-on experience to building a beautiful color palette of harmonious hues using natural dyes, mordants and dipping into the indigo pot. Students will be supplied with warp and weft fiber and will take home a complete notebook full of recipes and instructions, as well as a project ready to be woven. Jan Macklin will offer her expertise as well as her collection of dye plants to use in this workshop. The emphasis will be to create a range of colors to design and paint a silk warp as well as immersion dye wefts suitable for your warp. Avenues of surface designing will also be explored. Date: Thursday, April 23 & Friday, April 24, 2009 Time: 9:30 AM-4:00 PM Place: ABK Weaving Center classroom, Gaenslen School Cost: $100 for the two-day workshop. Materials fee of $20 for yarn and supplies. Other Information: Level – open to all. No loom is required for this workshop. Participants are responsible for personal meals, lodging, or materials during the workshop. There is a refrigerator and microwave at this location for our use. There is a scholarship available to any WHI member for the cost of the workshop. In the event you have to cancel, registration fees will be refundable only if we can fill your place in the class. A non-member will be allowed to enrol in the WHI workshop only after April 1, 2009 and pay an additional $15 fee. Please complete the following registration form along with your check made out to WHI for $100 and send to: Nancy Simonson, P.O. Box 148, Rochester, WI 53167 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wisconsin Handweavers Inc Natural Dye Workshop Name ____________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Telephone ____________________________________________________ E-mail ____________________________________________________


October 11th Program

10:30 a.m.

“Saga of a Guild Calendar Project and Other Guild Projects”

With Nancy Frantz

 

Does your weaving guild challenge its members with a “guild project“ every year?  Get some weaving inspiration for yourself and/or your guild as WHI member Nancy Frantz tells you about some of the more recent projects members of Sheboygan’s Shuttlecraft Guild have undertaken.  She will bring many examples of finished projects for show ‘n tell and will also tell you the story of the guild’s latest project, a woven perpetual calendar to celebrate the guild’s 70th Anniversary.  Using a Rosepath threading, figurative motifs were woven to represent each month.  As she relates the saga of the calendar project, you will hear about some of the pitfalls and set backs they encountered but you will also see the eventual successful conclusion to their project… a beautiful keepsake calendar for each member of the guild.

 

Since 1985 Nancy has shared her love of weaving and fiber arts with hundreds of students through the Sheboygan Recreation Dept., from beginners to advanced students, ages 6 – 86! She has also presented weaving programs for various guilds, has taught at weaving shops and teaches during the summer at Sievers School of Fiber Arts. She has won several “Merit” Awards at the Sheboygan County Fair; in addition she has won various awards at WHI Annual Shows and MWA Conferences including two “Weaving for the Home” Awards of Excellence from Interweave Press.  Her work has been juried into the JMK Arts Six Counties Shows.  A very active member of the Sheboygan Shuttlecraft Guild (and current president of the guild), Nancy was also Co-Chair of the 2005 Midwest Weavers Conference.

 

 

 

Upcoming Programs

 

November 8

Su Butler:  “Rayon Chenille”

 

December 13

Wence Martinez:  “Honoring Ancient Process in Contemporary Weaving”

 

Upcoming Workshop

 

February 21, 2009

Christi Ehler:  “Inkle Weaving Workshop:  Basics and Beyond”

 

 

 

 

Text Box: WEAVING 101 STUDY GROUP October 11, 2008 Terry Walker-Wedell presents “Weaving Project Planning and Record Keeping” This class will explain why it is critical to plan and keep records of your weaving projects.  It will describe alternative approaches and provide copies of forms that can be used.  Class participants will be encouraged to share the tips and pitfalls they have experienced.